If a tenth of the messages you sent and received had attachments averaging 148KB - I'm pulling this number off of the Word file I got from you most recently - that's (148KB * 150) / 1024 (KB/MB) = about 21.7 MB right there.

If your 1500 message texts average 2KB - they can get long when they have a lot of quoted context from lengthy exchanges - well, (2KB * 1500) / 1024 (KB/MB) = about 2.9MB of ASCII.

That sums to 24.6MB, which is close enough to round to 25MB. A stray PowerPoint attachment, or a zipped executable, or even a large photo could certainly fill in the remaining 400KB, and a few of these could account for any overestimate I may have made of message length or the frequency or size of Word attachments.

Man, I knew doing all that arithmetic in my computer architecture course would pay off one day...

Thanks for running the numbers, Nick. Gmail lets me see that 70 of my messages had attachments (about 5%); I'd estimate that fewer than 20 of these were over 100KB in size. I just don't think the bits are adding up.

Do you mean an African swallow or a European swallow?

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_Monty Python and the Holy Grail_!!!!

Never been a fan.